While I love Star Trek, and I generally just handwave away the dumb science (“It’s just a show! These these happen for [techno-babble] reasons!”), the whole “Romulus was destroyed by a supernova and it happened too fast to evacuate the planet” thing kind of stretches my credulity.

Not a book-reader, but I got a bit of a “Dark Forest” vibe off of that vision. Can’t wait to see how the apparent confirmation of the protomolecule’s genocidal ambitions square with it’s equally apparent conscience it’s developing (stopping the ships without killing anyone, only stopping the bullets and not the…

I don’t know if they’ll beat Helen Mirren’s “You’ve been drinking your whiskey from Kentucky!” line when he tries to tell everyone about it, though. Though Chrisjen is likely to break out a few f-bombs.

Hats off to anyone that drops a B5 reference in an Expanse thread :)

How the FUCK is this show canceled.

You knew the exact line that was coming when he closed the lock, but it was still, indeed, BADASS.

Amos: “You’re not that guy.”

I really enjoyed the first novel, but I couldn’t get into the sequel. Not having Ken Liu (no relation to Cixin) as a translator made a huge difference.

should’ve read before I wrote. but yeah, good fucking luck with the interdimensional folding, assuming you have an audience left after the theoretical physics/polymers/other elements of the earlier books.

If ever there was a book that was unfilmable, it’s the last one in this trilogy.

I really don’t agree? They did a lot of character work with L’Rell and Voq in this episode, and to a somewhat lesser extent Kol, as well.

I have a few plausible - to me, at least - explanations for most of these.

I haven’t seen Sub Rosa. Is it as appalingly racist and sexist as Code of Honor? If it isn’t, then I still contend Code of Honor is worse.

Now I’m curious - what’s the poster for Code of Honor, TNG’s worst episode?

Translation software would have been useless. All along they were teaching humans how to speak their language - that was their main goal. Sub goal was cooperation, which could only have been achieved once the language was taught.

Brad Dorif made that one though, no matter what he does he’s brilliant. My particular favorite episode of Babylon 5 Called “Passing through Gesemane” had him as the focus of the episode. He deserved an Emmy for it.